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title: Nick Parker's Boot Camp
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html_text: Nick Parker, a certified celebrity personal trainer who has appeared on FOX, Good Morning America, and a range of other media outlets, partners with a team of able coaches to propel exercisers of all levels toward slimmer, healthier bodies. Five days a week, the crew leads boot camps designed to promote weight loss and tone muscles throughout the body. Most sessions incorporate cardio, which burns calories, and strength training, which increases lean muscle mass and the possibility of making a bull run from you. The staff encourages camaraderie and a mutually supportive environment during especially tough drills, which can forge bonds that may lead to friendships. Coaches also provide inspiration by varying the workouts, cultivating a welcoming atmosphere, and praising participants as they chase down their fitness goals.

Martial arts at Longwood's American Top Team is a great workout that will leave you feeling Zen.
If you've worked up an appetite, no worries! This studio also has a fabulous restaurant.
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Northside Sportsplex presents exercisers with numerous avenues to get fit and stay fit. On its soccer field, the facility hosts tournaments, leagues, and pickup games throughout the week. Competitive juices keep flowing during boot-camp classes, where groups of exercisers power through high-energy workouts under the direction of nationally certified trainers. For a more individualized routine, Northside Sportsplex also offers personal and sport-specific training programs and clinics.

When discussing Breakthrough Fitness’s training philosophy with reporters from the Seminole Voice, owner and lead trainer Dominic Lucibello quipped, “we train movements, not muscles.” That’s why the fitness coach eschews machines that focus on only one area of the body for training equipment that utilizes many muscles at once. Drawing from his degree in exercise science and his years as a certified personal trainer, Dominic joins a staff of seasoned coaches to lead group fitness classes, semiprivate training sessions, and sports conditioning programs. They’ve stocked their spacious sunlit studio with kettlebells, free weights, and suspension bands, leading clients through high-intensity functional exercises designed to increase their muscle tone and chances of being elected their state’s congressional power ranger. Their dedicated program-writing department draws up customized workout plans for members based on their current level of fitness, taking into account their interests and goals.

You're on your way to a better workout when you join Winter Springs' My House Fitness Winter Springs.
Pack quite the punch practicing kickboxing.
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Take advantage of their excellent personal trainers to ensure that your fitness goals are met on the time table you set.
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Between 1984 and 1986, Michael Echevarria. For three years running, he out-hoisted all comers to become, and stay,
the U.S. Air Force powerlifting champion in his class. But it wasn’t until 1996, when he started training for bodybuilding competitions—which emphasize aesthetics and pageantry over raw power—that he learned how hard it is to shed body fat.
As a personal trainer and owner of Fitness by Example, he leverages that struggle to deliver tailored programs and boot camps to his clients that help them lose weight and build muscle. Clients, ranging from 11 to 91, amp up cardio strength during outdoor boot camps or glean all kinds of benefits, such as lower cholesterol, during one-on-one sessions. When he’s not helping patrons hit their target weight right in its smirking face, Echevarria authors myriad articles that outline clever tricks for speeding up metabolism or the benefits of flexibility.

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If you’ve ever known someone in the military, you know that Basic Training—i.e. boot camp—is not something to take lightly. But how does it compare to the boot-camp fitness classes that have sprung up across the country over the last few years? We asked Chuck Dyson, a former United States Army Airborne Sergeant, to see if boot camp is still boot camp without the four-year commitment and regulation combat boots. He’d know better than anyone, as he’s currently in charge of The Sergeant’s Program, the longest-running military-style boot camp in the country. Dyson filled us in on what beginners need to know to be successful in his program—and how, exactly, his program compares to the real thing.Boot Camps Aren’t Just for Super SoldiersJoining the military doesn’t automatically make you a prime physical specimen. Whereas one recruit might have been quarterback of his high-school football team, another might be completely out of shape. It’s for this reason that boot camp is designed to help people in any shape get fitter and stronger in preparation for duty. According to Dyson, boot-camp fitness classes are no different. “Some come in conditioned, and some may come in deconditioned,” he says of his students. “The program is set up so that we can work with any level of physical fitness.”There’s Not as Much Yelling as You Think“One of the things we learned early on is that you can’t do a whole lot of yelling with new people,” Dyson says with a laugh. “We make it fun. We don’t yell and scream or get in people’s faces and embarrass them … but we’re still going to push them.” But how? Well, The Sergeant’s Program challenges students by instilling a sense of accountability and reminding them that they’ll only get what they put in. “As instructors, [we] want to be accountable to you,” Dyson explains, “but we want you to be accountable to the program, as well.” As in the actual military, camaraderie is key, and students often push each other to go that extra mile.It May Not Be the Military, But It Can Sure Feel Like It“A regular [military] boot camp is an all-day event,” Dyson says. “Early in the morning till late at night.” These kinds of hours are obviously impossible for a civilian to keep, but boot-camp fitness classes still try to maintain the essence of the military’s grueling sessions. That’s why many programs schedule classes in the wee hours of the morning, forcing people—or giving them “the opportunity,” as Dyson puts it—to get up early and get their workout in. Many of the classes also involve workouts identical to the military’s, including fundamentals such as running, pushups, bench dips, and pull-ups. The good news? They also incorporate new exercises to keep things interesting. “Just the other night,” Dyson recalls, “I took my class into the woods and had them jumping over creeks.” The bottom line? Fitness boot camps may be punishing workouts, but the good ones are always fun enough to keep students from going AWOL.